Classic love story gets a modern twist

As the English National Ballet prepares to bring its stunning take on Giselle to Ireland, Ellie O’Byrne hears how the production has been informed by the Bangladeshi origins of the choreographer.

Pastoral scenes of German peasants at harvest time in the Rhineland are replaced by migrant workers in a desolate world of ghost factories in choreographer Akram Khan’s electrifying 21st century reimagining of Giselle, as performed by the English National Ballet.